Testimony begins in murder trial

Wednesday

Jan 15, 2014 at 11:53 AM

Testimony began Tuesday in the case against a local woman accused of killing her husband last year with one of the witnesses — a reported friend of the victim who admitted to having a brief relationship with the accused — testifying that he heard the accused tell the victim, "‘I really don’t give a damn; I hope you die,’" after stabbing him in the chest with a switchblade.

Testimony began Tuesday in the case against a local woman accused of killing her husband last year with one of the witnesses — a reported friend of the victim who admitted to having a brief relationship with the accused — testifying that he heard the accused tell the victim, "‘I really don’t give a damn; I hope you die,’" after stabbing him in the chest with a switchblade.

Testimony began Tuesday in the trial for Stacy Ann Thompson, 33, accused of killing her husband, Bobby Richard Thompson, 33, in April of last year.

Stacy Thompson was arrested after her husband was found dead around 1:50 a.m. on April 6, 2013, in the front yard of a house in the 1100 block of Southwest Maple Avenue. Neighbors reportedly told police that the couple had been arguing before Bobby Thompson was found dead from an apparent knife wound. Reportedly, multiple children were at the residence on the night of the incident.

The defense in the case is contending that prior to the stabbing, the victim had struck Stacy Thompson hard enough for her to "see stars" and that her action was that of self defense.

At the time of his death, Bobby Thompson was facing a May 21, 2013, preliminary hearing on a felony charge of domestic assault and battery resulting in great bodily harm. That charge was filed in November 2012 in connection with an alleged attack in Dewey on a woman who claimed to have been Bobby Thompson’s girlfriend. Reports filed in the Dewey case claim Bobby Thompson had thrown the woman to the ground and kicked her in the face, resulting in a fractured facial bone.

A witness, Bobby Long, testified against Stacy Thompson on Tuesday. Long told the jury that he was better friends with the victim than with Stacy Thompson, and he admitted to having a brief relationship with her. He said that prior to the stabbing, he and Bobby Thompson had been "smoking "K2," described as a marijuana substitute.

"She was trying to get me and Bobby to fight," Long said. "She was belligerent, yelling, screaming and she slapped Bobby … and she was drunk."

Long said that Bobby Thompson had his hands up when his wife stabbed him in the chest.

"Bitch, I can’t believe you just stabbed me," Long recalled Bobby Thompson saying.

"’I really don’t give a damn; I hope you die,’" was her response, Long said.

He said that a short time later Stacy Thompson kicked Bobby Thompson in the groin.

Bartlesville Police Department officer Chris Neal testified that when he arrived on the scene, Stacy Thompson was standing in the yard and "had a closed switchblade in her hand." Neal said he was then told that the knife was "the murder weapon."

He said a witness pointed to Stacy Thompson and said, "She did it." He said that when he questioned the accused as to what happened, she reportedly said, "He (expletive) hit me and I (expletive) stabbed him."

Neal said that after she claimed to have been struck, he looked for marks on her but could not find any. He described Stacy Thompson as "wailing and crying" but said that he could see no tears and that it "didn’t seem like an authentic cry."

"She admitted to having been drinking," Neal said.

Another witness on the scene, Saundra Quattlebaum, said that prior to the stabbing she heard Bobby Thompson tell his wife, "If you stab me I will protect myself."

She also said that after Stacy Thompson stabbed her husband, "he raised his shirt up." When asked what she saw, she said "a hole."